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Ha’aretz, Washington Post Do Damage Control for Abu Mazen
WASHINGTON POST WATCH: February Follies
Editorializing in the news, sanitizing an editorial, and odd omissions marred Washington Post Arab-Israeli coverage in February
Washington Post Distorts Building in Jerusalem
Washington Post correspondent John Ward Anderson has
teamed up with Israel’s critics in a Post "investigation"
indicting the Israeli government and Jewish groups for "consolidating
their grip on strategic locations." The result is a highly distorted account of
construction in Jerusalem with the broad implication that Jews
have no right to move into or build in predominantly Arab neighborhoods regardless of
historical and legal claims to property.
Washington Post-Watch: Terrorist or Militant?
Toles in a Cartoon World of His Own
Editorial cartoons – political commentary in illustrated form, usually with some attempt at humor – are intentionally subjective. That being the case, they generally escape critical analysis. But when the cartoonist's premise contradicts the essential facts of his subject matter, criticism is mandatory. So it is with Tom Toles' editorial cartoon in the Washington Post and the International Herald Tribune.
Key Quotes Missing in Action; Washington Post Whiffs on Mubarak, Abbas
CAMERA Letter Published in Washington Post
Washington CAMERA director Eric Rozenman's letter clarifying the reason for increase in Palestinian violence was published in the Washington Post on October 30.
WASHINGTON POST-WATCH: Big News–But Only For the Post
Selective Quotes Distort Intent of Sharon’s Gaza Withdrawal
In his interview with the Israeli daily Haaretz, Dov Weissglas, a close advisor to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, was asked about Israel's decision to withdraw from the Gaza Strip. According to American media coverage of this interview, Weissglas suggested that Ariel Sharon's true intention in planning the Gaza disengagement is to freeze the peace process and prevent a Palestinian state. However, this was not his message at all; his words were taken out of context.